Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium could see billions of dollars' worth of Canadian metals being redirected and dumped on Europe. Could this spark a second transatlantic trade war?
  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    There’s no substance. This article contains not a single number, not fact, nothing but an opinion out of the blue and supposedly aiming to sow division between Western allies.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Of course that’s Trump’s plan. Divide and conquer has been the name of the game this entire time. We know who our enemies are and what they want by now. It’s up to us not to let it happen.

      • Jimius@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        No, of course it’s not the sole reason, but cost of materials is a factor. Also if there is a pro-longed cease-fire in Ukraine, the amount of materials needed for reconstruction is immense and drive up prices. Meaning stockpiling cheap steel right now would make sense.

        • albert180@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          Yes, but it’s also far from the being the biggest factor.

          Ground Speculation, insufficient or new construction of Social Units and a massive shortage are the reason. If Steel would be free tomorrow they wouldn’t rent you a new unit 1€ cheaper. Because they price them at what people are able to pay. Not on the costs they have

  • albert180@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t share the pessimistic view of the article which calls Trump unironically a „master negotiator", but thinks the EU Commission and Canada are too stupid to talk to each other before they would slapp tariffs on each other

      • albert180@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        I probably misremembered it, but they called him an hardline negotiator

        The concern naturally points to another. After all, the Trump administration is full of hardline negotiators – including Trump himself – who are skilled in the dark arts of pitting allies and friends against one another.

        • fikniefnadjofullinn@feddit.isEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          Ah, fair. To me “hardline” doesn’t say anything about being good at it, just that he’s aggressive (which is true). But calling Trump skilled at negotiation seems wrong, or at least his skill seems to be in a very narrow type of zero-sum negotiation which is not well suited for the geopolitical level.